Walter Hepworth

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Author: Walter Hepworth

Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900”, published in 1886, is a work by Walter Hepworth. It explores elements such as Cape Town, William Brummell and the Society of British Artists.

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ With the prince he at last had a quarrel, accounts of the cause of which vary; probably it was some more than ordinary license of a satiric tongue. It was a quarrel of equals. Brummell held his own in society until gambling losses forced him to flee the country. On 16 May 1816 he retired to Calais, and there, with such poor means as could now be obtained, he recklessly renewed his old course of life. The Duke of Wellington and many of his old friends visited him when passing through the town. He received much assistance from England, but was soon in another coil of debt. ”

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ Later he was for a short time engaged in the office of the town clerk of Carlisle; but, while still young, abandoned the prospects of a law career, and wandered about the country, making sketches in water colour, and associating with gipsies. In the course of his wanderings he visited London several times; first in 1838, when he made some copies in the National Gallery. He was never at any school of art. In 1845 he obtained employment as a scene-painter at Manchester, and was thence taken by the manager, Glover, to Glasgow, where he married Isabella Taylor, a singer at the theatre. ”

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ BONNEAU, JACOB (d. 1786) , painter, is supposed to have been the son of a French engraver who worked in London for the booksellers about the middle of the last century. In 1765-1778 he exhibited landscapes at the rooms of the Society of British Artists, of which body he was a member. ”

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ After a few years of great poverty and struggle he became a very prosperous artist. He lived first at Pentonville, removed thence to Fulham, thence to Hammersmith, and finally in 1854 to Barnes. His earliest pictures were studied from the scenery of Surrey and the banks of the Thames. Work of his was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1837, and from 1839 onwards one or two pictures by him were exhibited there every year until his death and four years after it. ”

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ After suffering for several years from a progressive disease of the brain, he died at his house at Barnes 11 April 1865. His only child, Edwin Boddington, and several of his nephews are painters, and carry on the family tradition to another generation.
[Information from Mr. H. S. Percy; Our Living Painters (London, 1859) ; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists of the English School.] ”

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ BOWYER, ROBERT (1758–1834) , miniature painter, seems to have been at an early date known to Smart, the miniature painter, and is supposed by Redgrave to have been Smart's pupil. He exhibited miniatures and paintings at the Royal Academy occasionally between 1783 and 1828; was appointed painter in water-colours to the king, and miniature painter to the queen ”

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ T. Clarke, William Bowness, &c., Kendal, 1872, contains one poem from the above-named collection.
[Cat. Royal Academy; Cat. Brit. Institution; Cat. Soc. Brit. Artists; Art Journal, February 1868; Kendal Mercury, 4 Jan. 1868; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists (1878) .] ”

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ The beau's father, also William Brummell, an intelligent boy, acted for some time as Mr. Jenkinson's amanuensis; was in 1763 appointed to a clerkship in the treasury, and during the whole administration from 1770 to 1782 was private secretary to Lord North, by whose favour he received several lucrative appointments (Gent. Mag. lxiv. 285) . He further increased his means by his marriage with Miss Richardson, daughter of the keeper of the lottery office. The younger William Brummell died in 1794, leaving 65,000l. to be divided equally among his three children, two sons and a daughter (ib.) ”

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ He began in 1849 a more earnest study of nature, working at Hamilton, in the neighbouring Cadzow Forest, and at Port Glasgow, where he painted his 'Shipbuilding at Dumbarton.' Among his principal works may be mentioned: 'Canty Bay,' 'The Rocket Cart,' 'St. ”

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Walter Hepworth, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ He produced little during the fifteen years immediately preceding his death, which took place at Eton, 12 Feb. 1876.
[Cat. Roy. Acad.; Cat. Brit. Inst.; Cat. Soc. Brit. Artists; Windsor Gazette, 19 Feb. 1876; Windsor Express, 19 Feb. 1876; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists (1878) .] ”

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